Richard M. Colby

Richard M. Colby (1931-) was a US Army Captain who served in the Green Berets during the Vietnam War.

Biography
Richard M. Colby was born in Pennsylvania in 1931, and he served in the US Army Green Berets with the rank of Captain. Colby was deployed to Vietnam during the Vietnam War, and he was ordered to track down Colonel Walter E. Kurtz to his base in Cambodia and terminate his command. However, Colby was brainwashed by Kurtz and joined his private army, and he wrote a threatening letter to his wife that told her that he was never going to return home, and that she should sell everything that they owned, including their children. Colby, who became Kurtz's assassin, was last seen by Benjamin L. Willard when he was sent to assassinate Kurtz at his village in 1969, but he did not respond to Willard when Willard identified him.